HeatAct now
Your Mac is running hot
macOS is slowing things down to cool off. Vitals tells you before the fans and the lag make it obvious.
Activity Monitor · Snooze
The check-engine light for your Mac
Your Mac, without the guesswork.
Vitals sits quietly in your menu bar. When your Mac runs hot, runs short on memory or disk, or drains its battery faster than normal, it tells you in plain English what's wrong and what to do — then gets out of the way.
- Free download
- Pro $9.99 once
- 7-day free trial
- No account
- Nothing leaves your Mac
One thing needs your attention
Watching quietly · Battery lasts until 2:20 PM
Your Mac is running hot
macOS is slowing things down to cool off, so apps feel sluggish and the battery drains faster. Close what you're not using, or check the busiest app.
Activity MonitorSnooze 1 hourAlways ignore
CPU64%
Hot
Memory58%
Pressure: Normal
Battery71%
Using 18 W
Disk142 GBfree
Network1.2 MB/s↑ 84 KB/s
Uptime6d 3hsince restart
Nothing leaves your MacNo analytics, no tracking
No accountDownload and go
FeatherweightTypically well under 1% CPU
Every modern MacmacOS 14+, Apple silicon & Intel
Alerts
Silent until there’s something worth saying.
Vitals waits until a problem has lasted long enough to matter, then sends a normal Mac notification: what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do about it.
- No false alarms. Pick Relaxed, Balanced or Sensitive. Short spikes are ignored.
- Fix it from the notification. Snooze or Always ignore, right where the alert appears.
- Never an ad. No notification ever tries to sell you Pro.
Vitalsnow
Your Mac is running hot
macOS is slowing things down to cool off. Close what you’re not using.
Activity MonitorSnooze
Vitals4m ago
Your Mac is out of memory
It’s using the disk as overflow, so everything feels slower.
Activity MonitorSnooze
Vitals8m ago
Hotspot: 1.6 of 2 GB used
You’re on your iPhone’s hotspot. Big downloads will eat the rest fast.
See dataSnooze
Vitals12m ago
Disk space is running low
4.1 GB left. Free Up Space shows exactly what to clear.
Free up spaceSnooze
MemoryNeeds attention
Your Mac is out of memory
It’s swapping to disk, so everything feels slower. Closing a few apps or tabs gets it back.
Activity Monitor · Snooze
DiskHeads up
Disk space is running low
Below about 5 GB free, apps can crash and macOS updates fail. Free Up Space shows exactly what to clear.
Free up space · Manage Storage
RestartHeads up
Time for a restart
After about two weeks without one, a restart clears slowdowns and finishes pending updates. Whenever it suits you.
Snooze · Always ignore
Battery drainPRO
Battery is draining fast
You’re losing about 28% an hour, well above your usual. At this rate it lasts 2h 30m instead of 7h.
Plan with “Will my battery last?”
HotspotHeads up
Close to your hotspot limit
Set a limit for your iPhone’s hotspot and Vitals warns you before a big download blows your mobile data.
See where your data went
On Screen pin
Keep the numbers you care about in sight.
Pin live readings anywhere on your screen — over a game, a render, a video call. Six shapes, nine readable themes and one-click presets. It stays out of the way, and the Edge Dock can tuck away until you hover.
Network↓2.1 MB/s
Today1.8 GB
Wi‑Fi-54 dBm
Ping18 ms
PRO With Vitals Pro
Free includes one reading in the Edge Dock with the Auto theme, so you can try it before you buy.
Sixteen readings
Everything worth knowing, in your menu bar.
Show live readings right in the menu bar as icons or text, in your colors — or pin them on screen. From CPU and GPU to refresh rate, ping, Wi‑Fi signal and battery health.
Performance
CPU23%
GPU41%
Memory62%
Swap used1.2 GB
Battery & power
Battery71%
Power draw9.4 W
Battery health94%
Storage
Disk free142 GB
Disk activity38 MB/s
Network
Network speed↓2.1 MB/s
Data today1.8 GB
Wi‑Fi signal-54 dBm
Ping18 ms
Display & time
Refresh rate120 Hz
Uptime6d 3h
World clockNYC 01:12
Live menu-bar readings, colors and icon styles are part of Vitals Pro PRO
Free Up Space
Disk full? See exactly what to clear.
Free Up Space scans your home folder on your Mac and sorts what it finds into plain groups, biggest first. Every item is explained. Your own files are never pre-selected and nothing is deleted for you — what you pick goes to the Trash, where you can still put it back.
- Scan free. See every gigabyte you could get back before paying anything.
- Clear in one click with Pro. Or clear by hand in Finder — your call.
- Space Map. A picture of what fills your home folder. Click any block to look inside.
- Remove apps completely. Vitals finds the settings, caches and data an app leaves in your Library and clears them with it.
- No scare tactics. No “junk detected!” banners, no subscription.
Free Up Space
65.1 GB you could clear
Pick what to clear
Where your data went
16.7 GB in 7 days
Wi‑Fi & EthernetHotspot · 0.3 GB
Network
Know where your data went — and don’t blow your hotspot.
Vitals keeps a private, on-device log of how much your Mac downloaded and uploaded each hour, and over which connection, for up to 31 days.
On a hotspot1.6 of 2 GB
Hotspot data guard counts from the moment you join an iPhone hotspot or other metered network, and warns you at 80% and 100% of the limit you set. Free.
Battery
Will my battery last? Ask before you leave.
Vitals learns how your MacBook usually drains, forecasts when it will run out, and tells you when something is draining it faster than normal.
Battery forecast FREE
Lasts until 7:42 PM
About 6h 42m at 11% an hour
Battery health FREE
86% · 668 cycles
Vitals saves one reading a day, so you can see how your battery ages over months — and when it nears the 80% service mark.
Will my battery last? PRO
You’ll make it, with about 1h 42m to spare.
While you were away
Away for 7h 12m · lost 23%
Asleep5h 54m
Awake1h 18m
See how long your Mac actually slept and whether the drop was normal. Free shows the headline; Pro shows the full report. Quiet when nothing was off.
Little helpers
Works with Shortcuts. Stays awake on command.
Vitals adds actions to the Shortcuts app, so you can build automations or run them with a key. Keep Awake stops your Mac sleeping through a long download, and a global keyboard shortcut opens Vitals from anywhere. All free.
- Keep Awake for 30 minutes, 1 or 3 hours, or until you turn it off.
- Global shortcut to open Vitals without reaching for the menu bar.
How Is My Mac DoingAsk for a plain-English health check.
How Much Data Did I Use TodayToday’s total, by connection.
Keep My Mac AwakeFor 5 minutes up to 24 hours.
Show or Hide the Vitals PinToggle the pin from anywhere.
Why Vitals
Answers, not graphs.
System monitors are great if you enjoy watching charts. Vitals is for everyone else.
| App | What you get | When it talks to you | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitals | Plain-English problems and what to do about them | Only when something is wrong | Free · Pro $9.99 once |
| Graph monitors | Dozens of live numbers and charts | Always — you do the interpreting | Free to ~$15 |
| “Cleaner” apps | Scans, junk files, scary warnings | Whenever they want to sell you something | Yearly subscription |
| Activity Monitor | A raw process list | Never — you have to go looking | Built in |
Pricing
Free to use. $9.99 once for everything.
Try every Pro feature free for 7 days. No account, no subscription, no automatic charge.
Vitals
Free
Everything you need to know when something’s wrong.
- Health light in your menu bar, with the reason when something’s wrong
- Heat, memory, low-disk and restart alerts as Mac notifications
- Battery forecast and hotspot data guard
- Free Up Space scan and Space Map
- Battery health history
- Today’s data usage
- One live reading pinned to the edge of your screen
- Shortcuts, Keep Awake and a global shortcut
7-day free trial
Vitals Pro PRO
$9.99 once · every feature, forever
For people who want to see — and fix — everything.
- Everything in Vitals
- Live readings in the menu bar with icons and colors
- Pin any readings anywhere — six shapes, nine themes, presets
- Refresh rate, ping, Wi‑Fi signal, disk activity, power draw, battery health
- Fast-drain alerts and “Will my battery last?” with Low Power Mode advice
- One-click clearing in Free Up Space, and complete app removal
- 7- and 30-day data history, full “While you were away”
- App Store: every Mac on your Apple Account, plus a key for the full version
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Health light and alerts as Mac notifications | Included | Included |
| Hotspot data guard | Included | Included |
| Battery “lasts until…” forecast | Included | Included |
| Shortcuts actions, Keep Awake, global shortcut | Included | Included |
| Free Up Space and Space Map | Scan and explore | Scan + one-click clear |
| Remove apps with their leftover files | Find | One click |
| Battery health history and charging time | Included | Included |
| Where your data went | Today | 7 and 30 days |
| While you were away | Headline | Full report |
| On Screen pin | One reading, Edge Dock | Every shape, theme & preset |
| Fast-drain alerts and “Will my battery last?” | Not included | Included |
| Live readings in the menu bar, colors and icons | Not included | Included |
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Battery features need a MacBook. Prices in USD; your App Store shows your local price.
Two editions
Get it from the App Store, or download the full version.
Same app, same price. The Mac App Store keeps apps in a sandbox, so that edition can’t look at or quit other apps. The direct download can — it’s signed with Apple’s Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Mac App Store
SimplestInstall and update through the App Store. Buy Pro with your Apple Account and it works on all your Macs.
- Every alert about your Mac itself: heat, memory, disk, battery, restarts
- Free Up Space, Space Map and complete app removal
- Pro $9.99 once includes a license key for the full version
Full version
EverythingDownload from this site. Vitals can name the app behind a problem and quit it for you.
- Everything in the App Store edition
- Runaway-app alerts with one-click Quit, and per-app battery and data use
- Hide menu-bar icons you don’t need
| Compare | Mac App Store | Full version |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts, battery tools, Space Map, pin, data usage | Yes | Yes |
| Free Up Space | Your home folder | Also Docker disk images, iPhone & iPad backups, app containers |
| Runaway-app alerts (“Chrome has used 180% CPU for 12 min”) | —No | Yes |
| Quit the app causing a problem, right from the alert | —No | Yes |
| “Apps using your Mac” and the busiest app in the menu bar | —No | Yes |
| Battery planner tells you which apps to quit | —No | Yes |
| Where your data went, per app | —No | Yes |
| Hide menu-bar icons you don’t need | —No | Yes |
| Updates | Through the App Store | Built-in update check |
| Buy Pro | In-app purchase | License key (included with an App Store purchase) |
Already bought Pro in the App Store? Open Vitals › Settings › Pro › Show My License Key and paste it into the full version. One key works on one Mac at a time.
App Store or full version — which should I get?
If you just want to know when your Mac needs attention, the App Store edition is the simplest. Get the full version if you want Vitals to name and quit the app behind a problem, show per-app battery and data use, or hide menu-bar icons. Pro costs the same in both, and an App Store purchase includes a key for the full version.
Is the download safe?
Yes. The full version is signed with Apple’s Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS checks it before it opens. Drag Vitals to Applications and open it like any other app.
Does Vitals slow my Mac down or drain the battery itself?
No. It checks every few seconds and typically uses well under 1% CPU. Feel free to watch it in Activity Monitor.
Will it nag me?
Vitals only speaks up when a problem has lasted long enough to matter. Pick Relaxed, Balanced or Sensitive, snooze any alert, or tell it to always ignore one. And no notification ever advertises Pro.
What does Vitals send over the internet?
Nothing about you. There’s no account, no analytics and no tracking. The optional Ping reading times a connection to Apple’s captive.apple.com, and showing or activating a license key talks to our license server. Purchases go through Apple.
Why does it ask for my home folder?
Mac App Store apps can only look at folders you choose. Free Up Space asks once so it can find files you might want to clear. It scans on your Mac and only moves files to the Trash when you pick them.
How does the free trial work?
Start it in Settings › Pro. Everything is unlocked for 7 days, with no payment details needed. When it ends, Pro features lock again and the free features keep working. You’re never charged unless you buy Pro.
Is it really one payment?
Yes. $9.99 once unlocks every Pro feature. Use Restore Purchase on any Mac signed in to the same Apple Account.
Can I use my purchase outside the App Store?
Yes. Your Pro purchase includes one license key for the direct-download edition of Vitals. Open Settings › Pro › Show My License Key. Each key works on one Mac at a time — remove it from the old Mac to move it.
Which Macs are supported?
Any Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Battery features need a MacBook.
Let your Mac tell you what’s wrong.
Free on the Mac App Store or as a direct download. Pro is $9.99 once, with a 7-day free trial.